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He's too old to grow up, I suspect. What a POS.
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Trump blasts retired Navy SEAL critical of him, saying he should've caught bin Laden sooner
"OK, hes a Hilary Clinton backer and an Obama-backer," Trump said of retired Adm. Bill McRaven.
Nov. 18, 2018 / 1:52 PM EST
By Allan Smith
President Donald Trump went after retired Adm. Bill McRaven the Navy SEAL who led the 2011 raid that killed Osama bin Laden calling him a "Hillary Clinton fan" during an interview with Chris Wallace on "Fox News Sunday." The president made the comments after Wallace asked him about McRaven's criticism of Trump's attacks on the press.
McRaven, who did not make an endorsement in the 2016 presidential election, called Trump's lambasting of the news media possibly "the greatest threat to democracy in my lifetime" during a speech at the University of Texas last year. A four-star admiral who retired from the Navy in 2014, McRaven also authored an August op-ed calling on Trump to revoke his security clearance after the president pulled former CIA Director John Brennan's clearance.
"OK, hes a Hilary Clinton backer and an Obama-backer," Trump added before Wallace said McRaven was a Navy SEAL for nearly four decades.
Trump, pointing to the bin Laden raid, added, "wouldnt it have been nice if we got Osama Bin Laden a lot sooner than that, wouldnt it have been nice?"
"Living in Pakistan, beautifully in Pakistan in what I guess they considered a nice mansion, I dont know, Ive seen nicer," he continued. "But living in Pakistan right next to the military academy, everybody in Pakistan knew he was there. And we give Pakistan $1.3 billion a year and they dont tell him, they dont tell him ... for years."
Wallace asked if Trump would give credit for "taking down bin Laden."
"They took him down but look, look, theres news right there, he lived in Pakistan, were supporting Pakistan, were giving them $1.3 billion a year, which we dont give them anymore, by the way, I ended it because they dont do anything for us, they dont do a damn thing for us," Trump said.
Soon after publicly rebuking the president in the August op-ed, McRaven, who led the U.S Special Operations Command from 2011 to 2014, resigned from the Pentagons technology advisory board.
Achilleaze
(15,543 posts)his glaring shortcomings by attacking others. He and his republican cronies aways piss on America's military, veterans, POWs, and Gold Star Families.
What a republican lowlife coward.
Doodley
(9,036 posts)Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)this will have a major negative Consequence in the ranks of the Seals. Known a few in my lifetime and to a person,you bust negative on one,you insult all.
Trump is so unqualified to carry the soiled underwear of a single seal,more less criticize a Single one.
SMC22307
(8,090 posts)the ones with American flag flower pots and yellow ribbons on their mini-vans. They broke for Democrats in the midterms; they'll do the same in 2020 thanks to Drumpf shooting off his big fat mouth.
Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)As you say,the after shocks are coming. Not a rah rah military type,but,had to work with many of these Great Guy's after Nam. Two were personal Friends from High School Days and early College. And they were hard core Nixon supporters and to this day are all hard Right Wingers. Watched non Military fellow Workers say something negative towards the Navy and boom,all hell broke lose.
The flag wavers of Suburbia will react and Donnies Reelect numbers are already below 20 and trending downward in any two or more Person Primary.
BSdetect
(8,994 posts)Fatemah2774
(245 posts)President Obama laced into him that night and then had nerves of steel to order this operation into Pakistan.
He followed up by a proper burial without showing his body thus ensuring no monuments for Bin Laden.
And Trump is still pissed at that.
An enemy of the United States is killed and he roots for the enemy. Please tell me how this makes America great.
pwb
(11,246 posts)I go with the Admiral.
Tactical Peek
(1,207 posts)Cadet Bonespurs